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You don’t win championships by just being normal, by just being average.

Bill Walton

I’m a fan and a friend, I met them in 1974 when I first joined the NBA and my life has never been he same since. I became the basketball player I was because of the Grateful Dead.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Friend Grateful Met Player
[Peter] Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” was my first go-to song in terms of getting into the zone and getting ready and then I quickly gravitated to rock and roll music in the mid-’60s with the Grateful Dead,
BILL WALTON

Getting Grateful Ready Song Strong
Right now, you know, it’s not about the refs or anything else, it’s about hitting first, getting on the run and never looking back.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Hitting Running
It changes over the course of life, depending on how you’re feeling. There’s this incredible catalog of different songs, so it depends on what you’re hoping for, what your dream is and that song will come on.
BILL WALTON

Catalog Dream Feelings Incredible Song
That’s what makes it so fun to be on a team. You’re sitting at your house, thinking up this wild, crazy stuff as to how it’s going to go, and the other guys are sitting at their houses doing the same thing.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Crazy Fun
Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot.
BILL WALTON

Country Missing Shots
Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness.
BILL WALTON

Bird Skills Strenght
I went to my first show [of the Grateful Dead], got right up front and never left. The incredible excitement, the family, the spirit, the hope, the happiness, all the different things I love and live for in life are there.
BILL WALTON

Book Grateful Teamwork
Tim Duncan’s foot issue, I think, is a major factor in this year’s playoffs. That’s not the kind of injury that gets better over time playing NBA basketball.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Factor Thinking Years
When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.
BILL WALTON

Deliberating Life Pain Years
We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Inspirational Men Quality
Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
BILL WALTON

Basketball Motivational Sports
My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
BILL WALTON

Church Gym Wheelchair
I like a lot of other music and listen to a lot of other music, but one of the greatest things about the Grateful Dead is they played all the time.
BILL WALTON

Grateful Listen Music Other
I grew up in a classical music household. My dad is a phenomenal musician who can play any and all instruments, can sight read, can play by ear.
BILL WALTON

Dad Play Sight
Tracy McGrady is doing things we’ve never seen from anybody – from any planet!
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Basketball Funny Planets

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